| I offered to show them how to throw a smoke bomb, and they gave me one with an extra short fuse. |
| He had a very short fuse and he could be totally irrational at times. |
| The Conservative leader is formidable, a successful barrister with a good grasp of detail, albeit with a well-documented short fuse. |
| Don't treat business as though it were a lighted fire-cracker with a short fuse. |
| He has a short fuse and when pushed may become loud, rigid and domineering, bringing a high level of stress to the team or his peers. |
| There is a short fuse and a certain explosion at the end of this piece of treachery. |
